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    Compiz Fusion

    http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=481314

    Very impressive! Makes Aero look old!
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    very impressive!

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    Yeah that does look pretty amazong.

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    That's one of the nicer demo videos I've seen - thanks

    I have Beryl running on CentOS 5, and it's smooth as anything even with my older GF4 graphics hardware

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    thing is the only impressive one (too me) is the 'ring plugin', the others are pointless, or technically un-impressive. I do like the ring one thou.

    Take the cube for instance, how hidious form of window management is that? It dosen't even look good (remeinds me of a java applet everyone used to use for navigation back in 96 iirc).

    the writing with fire, water effects are pointless, i know they're trying too show the fact they can draw over the whole screen with openGL, but still, their not doing anything useful, or demonstraighting anything remotely clever.

    the dragging sliding looks cool too.
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    being able to view all your desktops side-by-side would seem the most useful one to me - the main reason I stick to just two (one per screen) atm is because of having to constantly flick through desktops to find the right one!

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    Quite visually pleasing, now they just need to get working on how to make them more useful / productive. Surely most people would just alt tab through windows and alt whatever through desktops? Being able to pull back and see 4 desktops at once though is a nice idea, and I like the thing where all your windows on one desktop spread out so you can see them all in mini.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Templar87 View Post
    being able to view all your desktops side-by-side would seem the most useful one to me - the main reason I stick to just two (one per screen) atm is because of having to constantly flick through desktops to find the right one!
    True, but i'd sooner just have an alt+tab through em (perhaps ring interface....) but side by side/cube is horrid.

    Also showing that they can play video still whilst doing that... I thought i didn't know much about OpenGL but again truely un-impressive. Try putting video accross multiple monitors video adaptors, that would be useful and impressive. (or even just getting a smooth changing of video between adaptors whilst using hardware acceleration).

    But saying this i can't help feal like i'm some kind of user interface luddite, i don't want progress in "fancy crap" because i think its a waste of CPU time, and my time going through the stupidity.
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    The one effect I find genuinely useful is transparency. Use Alt-Scroll Wheel to adjust the transparency of the active window. Now that is useful.

    I actually like the spinning cube and side-by-side virtual desktops - I find them more intuitive than the conventional 2D virtual desktop representation.

    But I'm sure once the technology is in place and stable, then the designers will find ever more practical ways to use it

    The thing that still impresses me the most is the sheer speed that many of these effects run on old hardware. The spinning cube and wobbly windows, for example, run absolutely fine on an old Athlon XP with a GeForce 4 MX graphics card in my current desktop system, and I've heard they'll even run on TNT2 aged hardware. I bet Vista's Aero can't match that!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Phil_P View Post
    The one effect I find genuinely useful is transparency. Use Alt-Scroll Wheel to adjust the transparency of the active window. Now that is useful.

    ... *snip*

    The thing that still impresses me the most is the sheer speed that many of these effects run on old hardware. The spinning cube and wobbly windows, for example, run absolutely fine on an old Athlon XP with a GeForce 4 MX graphics card in my current desktop system, and I've heard they'll even run on TNT2 aged hardware. I bet Vista's Aero can't match that!
    I like that idea so much i might nock up a quick proggie to do it for me (simpler than going through the nvidia software on my work box).

    Speed, remeber these are VERY simple effects if you've got the hardware to do it. Aero runs fine on my intel 950GMA(conversly Beryl won't, dodgy drivers probably).

    One complaint against all these things is that if your on a an older GPU they can't shut down properly granted i don't know much about power management schemes of GPU, but the new ones don't seam to have so much of a problem.
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